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BXABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM CO.. THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1921.
VOL. XLTI1 NO. 31
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A SIMPLt INAUUUKAllUN
irding Will Take the Oath
0j Office Without Cere
moay of Any Kfnd
r.rren Gamaliel Harding, Republi
,u .u: will be sworn in.as the
ff ninth President of the. United
Dylff (Friday) at Washing-
testou maPkthe
The inaugui-..""- -
' -wine toward simplicity since
tblg !V tniled ud Canitol Hill
ff n years ago. At the urgent
t 0f Mr. riaruuig, -
dor have been abandoned, tomor
le th reremony will be one of
ha. anu . 1L.
le c ctnnrf. no seats of
ncprv one 111
" '"I nbeine provided, even for Mrs.
,yi or for Chief Justice White,
Minister the oath.
1 . he the pompous inaugural
ftrade down Pennsylvania avenue; gone
f kraue u , . i.nnnc l,o mar.
Jill be the marcmng
bands, the gorgeous floats, the ex
plorations, the glitter of the
augural ball, the military pageants
itiieroar of artillery which have
arked the inauguration of other Pres-
Both the President-elect and the Vice
resident-elect, with their wives and
her members of their families, will
:rive in Washington, according to the
resent program, this afternoon and
ill R0 to he same hotel. A little af
,r 11 o'clock tomorrow, the President
lect will be driven to the White House
here he will be joined by the outgoing
resident, provided Mr. Wilson is then
, as good health as he has been, and
ie two will be driven down Pennsyl
o,rQT,no tn the capitol. In the
f
7 Lantime the Vice-President will have
I lone to the Senate chamber, where he
' i till take the oath of office.
Congress has not planned to s,pend
ven a two-cent postage stamp on the
lauguration. There will be no invita
ions, no music, no grandstand and no
eats for anyone. A stand- consisting
four steel uprigh's, sustaining, a
6 oof, has bean erected on the capitol
teps and within this enclosure Sena
I or Harding will take the oath and de
liver his address. But the Congress-
uration is not building this stand. It
kas put up by the Bell Telephone com
pany at the company's expanse, so that
m emm
A Mich will enable all who come to the
plaza in front of the capitol to hear the
iddress.
OSS
ITTSBORO - GRAHAM ROAD
i
uni
ditor of The Record:
I am glad the howling wilderness of
ce,
A
pr backwoods is beginning to,getlUsy ;
hat is, some talking and writing on
it
fee proposed highway from. PittsborG
o uraham.
at
Of course, there 13 diff erence of opin
ay!
,3
ion as to where it should be run, so
pluribus and Rastus have called a
eeting of our citizens, who have ta-
ttn interest and who have given work
on the road until they have now the
Pest and nearest route between the
wo towns. The progressive citizens
ilong this route have given 18 or 20
toys' work free since Epluribus wrote
m We are still of his faith, that
Forking Will get us a road much quick-
than Mr. T. H, Perry's way-"The
Cornwallis road." Any stranger would
f gree with him on the name and title
0 same, as parts of it seem, as there
as been no change onlv for the worse
.mce Cornwallis passed over it. '
. Mr- Perry says it was a retreatine
me of the RriticVi ooa xtv. ro.j
pa from Guilford Courthouse,' which
s 6 or 8 miles northwest of Greensboro,
P as the only argument for his road
I ' ane- we will put him straight
f 1 tell him that Lord Cornwall's came:
ly.now Carap and not by Graham. So
n "air line." .
our Mr' Perrv tnere are many of
citizens who have seen and sat in'
;n a tlr Lrd Comwallia sat in. . It is'
!aSme of the grandfather of the'
cnatr very much, and he had a sil
it!?7 eR2rved with date and had
Redded on the chair : . '
We alio.,..
vtry sorry you have gone
WltlCIZeo :mr n;Ul :T1J.:
i mP m their efforts to build them
kw!adS;and say only passable
hole, hlthe oldte- Now if
feau v , 6,1 aie so aear to you, how
A, 4V t0 glve UP "Cornwallis?"
roiaW m T BPeni on me roaa
w- M. Kerry's to the County line,
near Manndale. The road has got r o
more money than yours per mile -for
road work. The Commissioners have
built two creek bridges (citizens built
one) at a cost of some over $400 on the
Bbove road in the last four years.
- You should be fair and not mislead
our people. , If we have a road, it is
because our people give the work. You
try. Help your progressive neighbors
as much time as you take searching
records, etc., and you soon will improve
"Cornwallis." I'm sure our Commis
sioners want to treat all parts of the
County fair, and I'm sure they will not
neglect us and take all of the $300,000
of the bonds and supplement the
amounts voted by the various, town
ships for road building, but will give us
our part In roads and improvements.
We need a road. All agree on that,
and should we get the favors from our
Commissioners, we will be satisfied,
but we insist on building it the shortest
and most economical route.
Well, our crowd has got in so I will
stop. Epluribus explains the meeting
and on motion of Bill Svkes, Rastus
was elected Secretary who was re
quested to read his letter. The letter
being read, it was moved and carried
b a unanimous vote that it be sent to
The Record for publication in defense
of our Commissioners Baldwin Town
ship Road Board and the Supervisor of
the public road fronvW. M. Perry's to
County line near ,Mannd?le.
It was moved and carried that we
have the utmost confidence in our Coun
ty, Commissioners, and believe they
will do all in their power to giye us the
highway.
There being some short speeches on
the advantage of goftd roads, all be
lieving in helping those who are will
ing o help themselves. It growing
late it was moved to adjourn to meet
at the call of the President at Petty's
bungalo, near Long Branch on the Corn
wallis road. Those who wish to be pi
loted or shown the road," call on T. H.
Perry who will show you three roads,
one of them he is sure Cornwallis cut
out. RASTUS.
Pitts?ioro. Rt. 2.
A COPPER STILL CAPTURED
A big copper still, cap and worm
ard a 10-gallon keg of moun
tain dew, " was captured on the
west side of Rocky .River, in the
Greene Mill neighborhood, Satur
day, and brought to town by
Sheriff Walker Blair and Deputy
Fred Nooe. The still held about
65 gallons and was running in
full blast when the officers found
it, and the man who was working
at still was soon running also in
full blast. The officers chased
him fully a mile before he made
his escape. Whether he was white
or black this writer does not
know.
Married
At the residence of Dr White,
in Center township last Saturday,
Mr. Harvey Boone of Pittsboro,
was united in marriage to Mrs.
Cornie M. Rogers, daughter of
Mr. George Wall, of Lockville,Lee
County, the Rev Mr. Garden, pas
tor of Hanks Chapel Church,
officiating. ' ....
The bride and groom have the
best wishes of their many friends
in their newly married life.. 1
Feb.' 20th, Mr.. Sam Thomas to
Miss Omie Windham, both of
New Hope township. The groom
is a prosperous young farmer
and a son of the late ' James A.
Thomas. The bride is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs.' W. II. Wind
ham. Mr. Thomas is to be con
gratulated on '. winning so lovely
a bride. Their many friends wish
lor them a happy life of wedded
bliss. v '
. During the year 1919 , the pro
portion of world's mill supply of
cotton contributed by each coun
try !was as follows: United States
56.7 percent. British India 22. 4
percent Egypt 5.9 percent Chi
na 5.7 percent. Brazil 2.8 per
cent, Russia 2.2 percent, all others
4.3 percent . ;;',
WILLIAMS WILL NOT
BE ANNEXED TO DURHAM
House Committee Reports the
Bill Providing For An
nexation Unfavorably
Williams township will not be
annexed to Durham County. On
Tuesday afternoon quite a large
number of the citizens of Wil
liams township appeared before
the House Committee on Propo
sitions and Grievances of the
Legislature at Raleigh and asked
that a portion cf Williams town
ship, being that part embraced
in the Holly Oak School district
be annexed to Durham County.
These citizens were represented
by McLendon & Hedrick and
Bob Gant, attorneys, of Dur
ham. A number of other citi
zens of Chatham, including J. J.
Jenkins, Jas. L. . Griffin, W. D.
toiler, AC. Ray and others, ap
peared before the committee and
opposed the cutting off of this
territory from Chatham. It had
been previously agreed by Rep
resentative Lane, of this County,
and Representatives Everett and
Fuller, of Durham, that the ac
tion of the committee on the bill
providing for the annexation of
this part of Williams to Durham
County should settle the matter.
The committee reported the bill
unfavorably; so that the present
boundaries of Chatham will re
main unchanged.
The proposed change would
have added about one-half of
Williams township to Durham
County. ,
Tractor School
The Case Trator Company will
conduct a tractor school in Pitts
boro on March 22nd, 23rd, 24th.
This is the only tractor school
that will be held by the Case
Company in North Carolina this
year ' , .
The instructions given will be
valuable to all persons interested
jn the operation of any engine or
machinery.
Further information on this
matter may be obtained by writ
ing to H. A. Bynum, Pittsboro,
N. C.
Couldn't Help Stealing
Evidence in the case of William
Dal ton, 16 years old, $65-a-month
bank clerk who was arrested in
Hevworth Saturday 48 hours
after he had stolen $772,000 in
liberty bonds from the Northern
Trust Company of Chicago, where
he worked, was placed before the
grand jury,
Robert Crowe, state's attorney,
said every effort would be made
to bring about speedy punish
ment of the boy who found it a
simple matter to carry out the
biggest bond theift in fcistory
only to fall into the hands of a
village constable after he had
been recognized from pictures
published in newspapers.
All of the bonds except one
for $500, which had been cashed,
were recovered.
'Meanwhile, Dal ton sat in a
detention home with an occasion
al tear running down his cheeks,
He was brought back from
Bloomington, 111.
Repeatedly he asked for his
mother.
At noon his two sisters brought
him a chicken dinner and he dis
cussed his case with them.
"I did wrong and Pm willing
to. take my medicine, "he said. "I
don't know just why I did it, but
NOT HAVING HARD TIMES
Mrs. Lucy. P. Russell in Rochingham
Post-Dispatch. ,
Let us consider "hard times." Ev
erywhere one goes, front the cabin of
the negro tenant, to the luxurious home
of the successful manufacturer, one
hears the same groan of "hard times,"
when the truth of the matter is, "there
ain't no sich animal." Money does not
circulate as freely as it did a few years
ago, it is difficult to mortgage your 4
land, your; crop, live stock or your lim
ousine. Nobody wants to lend his poor
brother enough ready cash to buy a new
car; also, more's the pity, nobody wants
ta lend the poor farmer enough ready
cash to buy new fertilizer, or to pay
for that that cotton devoured last year.
These things are true and embarrass
ing but as for real "hard times," let
se a moment. The generation for
which I speak knew nothing personally
of the rigors and deprivations of the
civil war, we came along during "re
construction," yet I remember most
distinctly, molasses and bread and one
glass of milk for supper, with butter
once a week. Our shoes were of the
"copper-toed" variety, or rudely made
by the . village 'cobbler. Our dresses
were either "made over" for mother's
or an older sister's, or of the simplest
calico, and our lingerie was of red flan
nel, I think. "Hats? O, don't -you re
member the "shakers? " They were
tubes of woven straw, rounded at the
closed end and' trimmed with a ruffle
around the neck that fell over the
shoulders, and maybe there was a flat
bow on top and strings that tied under
the chin of the patient. Proud and
haughty was the little minx whose
"shaker" had a silken ruffle.
Our daily complexion was guarded by
"slat bonnets." also tubular, ruffled
and tied and having the same effect as
"blinders" have on a horse Our homes
were cold storage plants, warm only
within the blaze of the open fire. Our
school houses were horrors of discom
fort, and yet somehow they sent out
educated men and women. I never ate
a whole orange in my life until I was a
grown woman. They were too rare and
costlynot o be carefully divided in a
family, and my children were grown
before I owned a pair of silk hose.
These conditions 'gradually improved
until, when I came to Rockingham to
teach, I had my first silk . dress, two
new calicoes and a hat that cost $3,
and it was a pretty hat at that.
Note the contrast of today the silks
and satins, fine woolens and furs on
our streets. Even the negro girls, who
are supposed to be our servants, ap
pear in silk hose and patent-leather
slippers, with heels four inches high,
that cost more than a whole dress of
our day. Our food is more abundant
and of infinite variety and cost. We
eat tomatoes in January and1 tropic
fruit three times a day. Our homes
are, in many cases, steam-heated from
cellar to garret, and furnished with a
luxury unknown to the mothers of
those who live in them. Our school
houses are so warm and comfortable,
neat and prettily decorated that any
child may go to school for years and
then think that Australia is aorth of
Belgium. '
We speak to invisible friends five
thousand miles away and whisper to
those flying miles above us. We milk
the cow and churn the butter and flood
our houses with a light surpassing that
of the sun by punching a button on the
wall then lift up our voices and wail
about "hard, times. "
We have better food, better clothes,
more comfortable homes, more luxuri
ous schools, more costly churches, more
rapid transportation than the world
ever saw before. Therefore, let us
cheer up.
In the first chapter of Esther
definite reference is made, to the
use of cotton "hanging" at the
feast which King Ahasuerus gave
about 519 B. C.
e World carry-over at July "31.
1920, of cotton grown outside
of the United States was 2,100,
000 bales greater than it was at
the end of the previous year.
for a week I had been handling
hundreds of thousands of dollars
in bonds and it w&s tso easy to
walk out with them that I just
couldn't help it." - - -v
. Wlliam Dalton who stole $772,
000 in liberty bonds, had been
arrested. The man who arrested
him received $20,C00for doing so.
:ty
NEW YORK TO LON
DON IN 24 HOURS
To Develop Huge 18-Cylinder
-
Motor to Drive Ac-
roplane
An 18-cylinder, 1000-horsepow-
er motor, weighing less than a
ton and said to be capable of
driving a huge commetcial aero
plane across the Atlantic in one
day, has been developed in Eng
land. As a result, the trans-At
lantic air service has come to the
fore.
The promoters estimate that
with the charges made for mails
and parcels and those made for
passengers, the income of each
plane, with a caoacity of 20 pas
sengers and 1,000 pounds of mail
and merchandise, would be"$20,
000 for each trip. English . in
ventors say the estimate is reas
onable for aeroplanes can fye con
structed that will carry 250 pas
sengers. Everything considered, the air
route wouldJsave close to two
weeks over even the fastest ship
routes of to-day, despite the al
leged week or ten days of most
ship passages. The aeroplane is
quick to load and unload. Its
passage time is reckoned from
landing field to landing field.
Should the new plans work cut,
it would mean a revolution in in
ternational cDmmerce. A bus
iness man could come to New
York from Lonbon in one day,
transact his business and return
home the Tiext day. An Ameri
can woman could receive from a
Parisian modiste a hat or- grown
within a few hours after it was
completed. But the promoters
plan, it is said, to make the charges
sufficiently high so that that
they will be well repaid for their
pioneer experiment.
""pittsboro
NELL FOUSHEE, CLASS EDITOR.
The Poe Literary Society held
its regular meeting last Friday.
The following program was ren
dered: Song Ho! For Carolina.
Chaplain's exercises 121st
Psalm.
Life of Lanier It. rie Farrell.
General Characteristics -Laton
Harris.
Recitation Billie Johnson.
Song Carry Me Back to Old
Virginny.
The Marshes of Gleyme E.R.
Franklin. - .
Song-Old North State.
On Tuesday night of last week
Dr. Young gave an interesting
lecture at the Methodist Church.
A United States flag was ' given
to the school teacher ivhose pu
pils caused the most people to go
to the meeting. Miss Lossie B.
Stone, teacher of the tenth and
eleventh grades, won the flag.
The flag was donated to the audi
torium. Misses Rosser Ferguson, Clara
Moore, Delia Burns, Sankie Per
ry and Lelia Justice spent the
week-end with Miss Pearl John
son at Bynum. v
GEORGE WASHINGTOIJ AND THE
CHERRY TREE :
Once George Washington had
a birthday, and his father gave
him a hatchet for a birthday
present Washington thought a
heap of his hatchet He went
out to the orchard where there
were many trees. There was a
cherry tree out there, and he be
gan to whack on it until he cut it
down. ;
Then his father went out there
and saw the tree. He went back
to the house and said, "Who cut
down my cherry tree?" Then
George said, "Father, I cufdowri v
the tree." His father took him
up in his lap and said, "I'd rath
er lose a dozen trees than foryou
to. tell mea story. "
. N ELSIE RIDDLE,
Second graded
Thabove story was told by
the teacher, then written several.
days later by the children.
REPORT
of the condition of
The Farmers' Bank
at Pittsboro, N. C, in
North Carolina; at the
ness Feb. 21. 1921.
the State or
close of busi-
RESOURCES. ..
Loans and discounts.- $60,595 4$
Overdrafts secured, $435.40;
unsecured, $405.00 , 840 40
Liberty-bonds 2,950 00
Banking houses, $6,692.74; :
furniture and fixtures, $2,-
331. 98 . 8, 024 72'.
Cash in vault and net amount
due from banks, bankers
and, trust companies-. 19,144 25"
Checks for clearing.. 600 00-
Revenue stamps : 26 50
Total.
. . $ 92,181 33"
4 LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in z $10,000 00-
Surplus fund 1,000 00-
Undivided profits 1,613 75
Bills payable. 10,000 00-
Deposits' subject to check 49,716 70
Time certificates of deposit 19,007 29
Savings deposits ' ., . 543 72"
Cashier's checks outstanding 299 ST
Total;-- -$ 92,181 3a
State of North Carolina County of
Chatham. ' Feb. -26, 1921. ;. ;
I, lC. C. Poole, cashier of the above
f named bank, . do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the best
of my knowledge and belief.
C. C. POOLE, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 1st of March, 1921. -G.
R. PILKINGTON,
Notary Public.
My commission expires Jan. 22; 1922
Correct Attest:
T. M. BLAND,
A. C. RAY;
W. P. HORTON,
Directors;
. . REPORT . . ;
of the condi tion of the -
BANK OF PITTSBORO
0
AT PITTSBORO IN THE STATE OF
NORTH CAROLINA,
at the close of business Feb. 21 , 1921
Resources-
Loans and discounts... $198,860 40
Overd raft s, secured,
unsecured, .". 5 33
V nitedTStates Bonds & Lib
erty Bonds. 9,250 00
North Carolina State bonds 5,060 00
All other stocks, bonds and
Mortgages 9,14T 00
Banking House. $4,000; fur
niture and fixtures, $2,000 6,003 0C
Cash in vault and net amounts
due from banks, bankers
and trust companies 86,549 8&
Cash items held over 24 hours 1,313 5S
Checks for clearing . 500 52:
Total ' - S316,626. 6
Liabilities.
Capital stocV paid in . :S20,00O 0
Surplus fund 5,000 00A
Undivided profits, lss cur
rent expenses and taxes p'd 5,337 63
Deposits subject to check... 210,24 OS
Time certificates of deposit 67,366 5K
Savings deposits 1,450 00
Cashier's checks outstanding 6,223 38
Accrued interest due deposi
tors . 1.000 00
Total-!-.. - .$316,626 6G
State of NORTH CAROLINA, Connty
of Chatham, Feb. iyi.
1 Jas. T, Griffin. Cashier of the-
above-named bank, do solemnly swear
that the abovantatementis true to tbe
best of my knowledc and. belief.
JAS. L. GlilFFlN, casnier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this 28th day of February. 1921.
O. K. I'lLil-lJMUroxv, .
Notarv Public
My commission expires Jan. 22, 1922
Correct Attest:
E. R. HINTON.
L. N. WOMBLE,
M.T.WILLIAMS.
Directors-
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